CIO

JUNE 23, 2023

According to the MIT Technology Review Insights Survey, an enterprise data strategy supports vital business objectives including expanding sales, improving operational efficiency, and reducing time to market. The problem is today, just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and Production”: Insist on doing everything through “channels” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. A few years ago, supply-chain snags had CIOs looking for new technology,” Beasley says.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Identifying the top technical skills that you should hire for is even harder. Based on the hiring trends we have seen on our HackerEarth Assessments platform, we made a list of the top technical skills you should be focusing on in 2024. What are these tech skills? Hiring is hard — no doubt. But we’ve got your back.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They don’t present big problems if you’re noodling around with gen AI prompts at home, but in enterprise organizations that are deploying new chatbots to huge numbers of customers and employees, just one AI fabrication can land companies in court. In IT organizations, gen AI glitches wreak havoc in other ways. Deploy content filters.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help.

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully. Overlooking these data resources is a big mistake.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Rising prices have imposed tough challenges on IT budgets, operations and staffing, especially for global organizations with operations in countries where inflation has been running high, such as Poland (10%), India (8%) or Turkey (50%). While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1% in June, 2022, to 3.7% Here’s how.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise technology leaders are actively partnering with startups to help make their organizations more innovative and agile. Co-creating with startups can help kickstart innovation , provide CIOs with access to hard-to-find skills in emerging technologies, and round out digital transformational strategies.

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. Yet after onboarding at HR SaaS provider Gusto in a customer experience (CX) role, exposure to coding sparked McGrath’s interest in shifting professional tracks.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. And it’s never too late for CIOs to reassess their cloud strategies.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2023

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2024

There’s the complexity of security in the organization. Password strategies. Throw in all the technical debt – and the cultural tendency (and often necessity) of building connections for backward compatibility. Complexity robs the organization of its focus. Incident response plans. Training and awareness. Encryption.

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CIO

JULY 7, 2023

Rona Bunn is CIO for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), where she facilitates digital orchestration and leads information technology, data, and digital experience. Tech leaders must go beyond focusing on preserving technology assets and enabling operational efficiency—that’s an old conversation.

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CIO

APRIL 2, 2024

Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Identity attacks use social engineering, prompt-bombing, bribing employees for 2FA codes, and session hijacking (among many techniques) to get privileged access. A DLP-like technology can be effective in preventing users from uploading files with sensitive data unknowingly. Plants decoy credentials in Windows memory.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

But for a select few, the deeper challenges of departmental technologies being funded, procured, and managed without IT involvement are the missed opportunities to better engage and fulfill departmental technology needs. That’s not to downplay the inherent risks of shadow IT.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2023

The effects of such an unpredictable environment are profound, and no organization in any industry is immune. In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This year’s technology darling and other machine learning investments have already impacted digital transformation strategies in 2023 , and boards will expect CIOs to update their AI transformation strategies frequently. Meanwhile, CIOs must still reduce technical debt, modernize applications, and get cloud costs under control.

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. But despite the bumpy year, demand for technology skills remains strong, with the US tech unemployment rate dropping to 1.5% as of January. Average salary : US$155,934 Increase from 2021 : n/a 3.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

When a technology this powerful comes along where you have to learn by doing, finding reasons not to do it is a pretty big error,” he says. Despite the mass embrace of generative AI in its first year of release, most organizations remain cautious about mass adoption. McAfee counters that such risks are manageable.

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OverOps

JUNE 4, 2019

The following is a guest post from Herb Krasner, an Advisory Board Member for the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) and industry consultant for 5 decades. In a previous post , we looked at the magnitude and impact of the soaring cost of poor software quality in the US and where those hidden costs are typically found.

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CIO

JULY 31, 2023

Organizations are rushing to figure out how to extract business value from generative AI — without falling prey to the myriad pitfalls arising. Those results align with Foundry’s more recent July 2023 CIO Tech Talk survey that found 60% of IT leaders are actively using gen AI in their enterprise, with 28% more in the exploratory phase.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Almost every team in their business needs access to analytics and other information that can be gleaned from their data warehouses, but only a few have technical backgrounds. The new funding will be used to add more no-code capabilities. It is also hard for non-technical users to adopt, a problem that Redbird was created to solve.

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CircleCI

MAY 27, 2022

Our vast technological landscape has made powerful digital tools available to businesses of all sizes, making starting (and scaling) an organization easier than ever before. In an era where technology is a fundamental building block of almost every business, methodologies like DevOps have become ubiquitous across many industries.

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2023

Once a vanguard business strategy, digital transformation has become a perennial objective for business survival. Most CEOs (72%) continue to prioritize digital investments, according to the 2022 CEO Outlook report from KPMG, in part due to concerns about emerging and disruptive technology, a top three risk to organizational growth.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Every business in some form or another is looking to adopt and integrate emerging technologies—whether that’s artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud architectures, or advanced data analytics—to help achieve a competitive edge and reach key operational goals. We’re at a critical time for digital transformation.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It attributed the rise to the proliferation of new technologies in regions around the world, with many more people than ever before possessing IT skills. To keep ahead of cybercriminals, organizations must remain agile, pivoting to embrace new strategies and technologies whenever necessary in order to outrun attacks.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Amid disruptive leaps in technology, leaders who will succeed in the near future, say experts, are the ones who stay focused on a decidedly low-fi resource: their employees. Hot: Soft leadership skills Tech leaders frequently mention soft skills as a key aspect of successful teams, and they prioritize those skills when hiring.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Employers started to use online management tech to efficiently manage their employees who were working remotely. This is where tools like applicant tracking systems, online coding assessments , recruiting CRM software , and so on step in to make hiring easier and quicker. What is tech recruitment?

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2024

For the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), effecting change for women working in IT is a holistic endeavor. NCWIT’s Workforce Alliance is for professionals and organizations who want to learn more about retaining employees, inclusive leadership, and creating systemic organizational change.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud.

Strategy 351

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CIO

APRIL 30, 2024

While you may have planned or negotiated an exit, very often such departures are beyond your direct control, due to a leadership change, acquisition, or another strategic event. Open and free-to-register events scheduled by public cloud providers and other technology companies.

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Datavail

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Given that Oracle is one of the world’s leading providers of database technology, many mid-market and enterprise organizations rely on its solutions for managing and processing crucial data. Failure to Review Oracle Licenses after Hardware Refreshes Do not forget to renew licenses after refreshing your hardware.

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CIO

MAY 3, 2024

The agile methodology, which facilitates collaboration between stakeholders, teams, and customers during software development, is fast gaining prominence in today’s enterprises. Certifications help validate that you have the right knowledge, expertise, and skill to work on a Scrum development team in a tech organization.

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